House Democratic leaders aim to put Trump on trial with lengthy public hearings

House Democratic leaders are planning to put Trump on trial with 'slow bleed' hearing strategy

House Democratic leaders are planning to put President Donald Trump on trial using a "slow bleed" hearing strategy in a bid to sabotage the rest of his presidency, according to reports.

On Monday, Democrats announced sweeping investigations into President Trump by the House Judiciary Committee to discern if his Administration and associates engaged in corruption or any other abuse of power.

The committee, led by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), revealed it had sent out 81 requests for documents to start building its record for the investigation into "alleged obstruction of justice, public corruption, and other abuses of power by President Trump."

“We have seen the damage done to our democratic institutions in the two years that the Congress refused to conduct responsible oversight,” Nadler said in a statement Monday.

“Congress must provide a check on abuses of power. Equally, we must protect and respect the work of Special Counsel, but we cannot rely on others to do the investigative work for us.”

According to Axios’ Mike Allen, leaders are planning to roll out a “slow-bleed strategy with lengthy public hearings and scores of witnesses to methodically pick apart Trump's finances and presidency.”

The plan would ensure that President Trump would “essentially be on public trial for months to come” and would be coordinated on by as many as eight House committees, Axios reported.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said on Sunday he thinks a 2016 offer for dirt on Hillary Clinton by a Russian lawyer to members of the Trump campaign and the subsequent meeting is “direct evidence” of collusion on the part of the president’s team.

“They offer that dirt. There is an acceptance of that offer in writing from the president’s son, Don Jr., and there is overt acts and furtherance of that… That to me is direct evidence,” he told CBS’ “Face The Nation.”

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However, The California lawmaker, who has been one of Trump’s fiercest critics, stopped short of calling for impeachment.

"That is something that we will have to await Bob Mueller's report and the underlying evidence to determine," Schiff said.

"We will also have to look at the whole body of improper and criminal actions by the president including those campaign finance crimes to determine whether they rise to the level of removal from office."

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, who would oversee any impeachment proceedings against Trump, also did not directly mention impeachment when announcing he will submit more than 60 document requests to the White House and Justice.

“We will be issuing document requests to over 60 different people and individuals from the White House to the Department of Justice, Donald Trump, Jr., [Trump Organization CFO] Allen Weisselberg, to begin the investigations to present the case to the American people about obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power,” the New York Democrat said on ABC News' "This Week."

Democrat Jerrold Nadler announced the plans to investigate his president with a series of drawn-out hearings designed to sabotage his presidency

In response, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said on "This Week" that Nadler had "decided to impeach the president the day the president won the election."

"Listen to exactly what he said. He talks about impeachment before he even became chairman and then he says, 'you've got to persuade people to get there,'" McCarthy said.

"There's nothing that the president did wrong."

The issue of impeachment has been a hot topic for Democrats since taking control of the House, with some seizing on a January report by BuzzFeed claiming Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie about the timing of discussions over a proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow to publicly float the possibility.